Saturday, 27 April 2002, 8pm
Xavier College Chapel, Barkers Road Kew
Subscription Concert 2
Though not a highly educated man, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was a great patron of the arts. Isaac, considered to be second only to Josquin in his time, spent the last twenty years of his life as Maximilian’s court composer, a position passed on to his pupil Senfl upon his death in 1517. The program features Isaac’s splendid six-voice Easter Mass, his brilliant six-voice motet Virgo prudentissima, works by his successor, who also adapted a Festa motet for Maximilian’s funeral, and an anonymous seven-voice lament for Maximilian, held by some scholars to be the work of Josquin.
PROGRAM
Heinrich Isaac Virgo prudentissima
Heinrich Issac Missa Paschale (à 6)
Ludwig Senfl Sancte pater
Ludwig Senfl Beati omnes
Ludwig Senfl Usquequo Domine
Costanzo Festa arr. Senfl Quis dabit oculis nostris
Josquin Desprez (?) Proch dolor
Note: Heinrich Isaac & Ludwig Senfl ‘Ursula Sequence’ advertised in subscription brochure but not performed.
| SOPRANO | ALTO | TENOR | BASS |
| Deborah Summerbell | Jenny George | Peter Campbell | Jonathan Wallis |
| Carol Veldhoven | Jennifer Mathers | Tim Van Nooten | Sam Furphy |
| Fiona Seers | Margaret Arnold | Vaughan McAlley | Andrew Fysh |
| Kathryn Pisani | Susie Furphy | Stuart Tennant | |
| Claerwen Jones | |||
| Maria Pisani |